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Color management/HDR protocol just got finalized - Wayland (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53432328

KDE, Gnome, Gamescope and now Wlroots already have a working implementation of the protocol. 2025 Year of the Linux Desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

don't count your chickens yet. this merge request is nearly 5 years old

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but it was just updated a few hours ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, it was being worked on for 5 years. Now it's done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pog

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wut mean from basic Linux enjoyer perspective?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

HDR means better contrast and colors if your monitor supports it.

The news in the OP specifically mean that the protocol is finalized, but you still have to wait for it to get implemented.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kde plasma (wayland) already has an HDR checkbox and i have it enabled.

Is it not really working yet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

KDE and Hyprland have it already apparently, as well as the embedded gamescope session. It still needs to be implemented by apps/games as well, though. According to this mpv and games running on recent Proton versions have HDR support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

TL;DR: More colors.

Though that is a gross oversimplification of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

finally, maybe HDR content will eventually be playable directly on Jellyfin or Firefox soon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't even support HDR on Windows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

will I still have to run games in gamescope with environment variables and flags for them to show the hdr settings?